Sites about alleged unethical or illegal conduct by discount store franchise Wal-Mart.
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A weblog designed to spread the anti Wal-Mart message through the internet.
Professor Anthony J. Sebok examines the issue of whether the discrimination suit against the retailer should proceed as a class action.
Wal-Mart's impact on local ways of living: small businesses, people who know what they are selling, community relationships that all vanish when Wal-Mart moves in.
An educator and activist worries about the effect of Wal-Mart on the economy, workers, taxpayers, the environment, and National Public Radio.
Complaint site.
"Andy Rowell explains why Wal-Mart's much trumpeted arrival in Britain is likely to spell disaster for local communities." [The Ecologist]
UC Berkeley study finds that use of safety net programs by Wal-Mart workers in California is higher than average for the retail industry.
[PDF] (August 01, 2004)
NPR's Tavis Smiley talks with Wal-Mart president and CEO Lee Scott about the benefits of being a top Fortune 500 company and the problems that come with the prestige. [13-minute Realaudio streaming broadcast]
(March 31, 2004)
Slate founding editor Michael Kinsley shares his thoughts with NPR's Alex Chadwick about the retailing behemoth Wal-Mart, and how a company that generates so much antagonism can be so successful. [5:14 Realaudio streaming broadcast]
(December 31, 2003)
Wal-Mart's low prices place severe demands on the discount chain's suppliers, according to a magazine report. A demand to cut prices 5 percent every year has forced some suppliers into bankruptcy and prompted others to shut down American factories for cheaper labor abroad. Hear NPR's Scott Simon and Charles Fishman of Fast Company magazine. [9-minute Realaudio streaming broadcast]
(December 27, 2003)
Fast Company looks at Wal-Mart's pricing practices and their sometimes devastating pressures it exerts on the companies it does business with.
(December 01, 2003)
A three-part series from the Los Angeles Times profiling the retail giant and its business practices. [Free registration required to view this content]
(November 01, 2003)
Examines the issue of company's cultural censorship of rock and rap CDs by artists like Marilyn Manson, Snoop Doggy Dogg, Sheryl Crow. [MetroActive]
(January 09, 1997)
Inc. Magazine's article about how a small Maine town reacted to Wal-Mart's opening three stores in the area.
(July 01, 1993)
Wal-Mart's impact on local ways of living: small businesses, people who know what they are selling, community relationships that all vanish when Wal-Mart moves in.
"Andy Rowell explains why Wal-Mart's much trumpeted arrival in Britain is likely to spell disaster for local communities." [The Ecologist]
A weblog designed to spread the anti Wal-Mart message through the internet.
Complaint site.
An educator and activist worries about the effect of Wal-Mart on the economy, workers, taxpayers, the environment, and National Public Radio.
Professor Anthony J. Sebok examines the issue of whether the discrimination suit against the retailer should proceed as a class action.
UC Berkeley study finds that use of safety net programs by Wal-Mart workers in California is higher than average for the retail industry.
[PDF] (August 01, 2004)
NPR's Tavis Smiley talks with Wal-Mart president and CEO Lee Scott about the benefits of being a top Fortune 500 company and the problems that come with the prestige. [13-minute Realaudio streaming broadcast]
(March 31, 2004)
Slate founding editor Michael Kinsley shares his thoughts with NPR's Alex Chadwick about the retailing behemoth Wal-Mart, and how a company that generates so much antagonism can be so successful. [5:14 Realaudio streaming broadcast]
(December 31, 2003)
Wal-Mart's low prices place severe demands on the discount chain's suppliers, according to a magazine report. A demand to cut prices 5 percent every year has forced some suppliers into bankruptcy and prompted others to shut down American factories for cheaper labor abroad. Hear NPR's Scott Simon and Charles Fishman of Fast Company magazine. [9-minute Realaudio streaming broadcast]
(December 27, 2003)
Fast Company looks at Wal-Mart's pricing practices and their sometimes devastating pressures it exerts on the companies it does business with.
(December 01, 2003)
A three-part series from the Los Angeles Times profiling the retail giant and its business practices. [Free registration required to view this content]
(November 01, 2003)
Examines the issue of company's cultural censorship of rock and rap CDs by artists like Marilyn Manson, Snoop Doggy Dogg, Sheryl Crow. [MetroActive]
(January 09, 1997)
Inc. Magazine's article about how a small Maine town reacted to Wal-Mart's opening three stores in the area.
(July 01, 1993)
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